Cardiovascular Flashcards
Ectopia cordia
Heart develops outside the body cavity, due to incomplete body compartments
Amorphus globosus
Acardiac monster attached to the placenta. Spherical, covered in hair
Patent ductus arteriosus
Foetal remnant which connects the aorta and pulmonary artery.
Blood shunts from aorta to pulmonary artery therefore leading to pulmonary hypertension.
Usually degenerates to the Ligamentum arteriosum
Sequelae to PDA
Right ventricular hypertension due to pulmonary hypertension
Patent foramen ovale
Hole which allows blood from the right atrium to by-pass the lungs during gestation
True septal defect
A hole (fault) in the septum between heart chambers.
Can be interatrial or interventricular.
With ventricular shunts are from left to right and lead to equal pressures in the chambers:
- Volume overload and eccentric hypertrophy in the right atrium
- Pressure overload and concentric hypertrophy in the left atrium
Pulmonary stenosis
Valvular lesions which are associated with muscle/fibrous tissue deposition:
- Subvalvular - beneath the valve
- Valvular - valve itself
Leads to pressure overload and concentric hypertrophy of the right ventricle. Also jet lesions in the pulmonary artery.
Subaortic stenosis
Below the aortic valve a zone of circumferencial fibrosis.
Made up of proliferating mesenchyme, mucin and metaplastic cartilage.
Leads to pressure overload and concentric hypertrophy of the left ventricle. Also myocardial necrosis and fibrosis may be observed.
Tetralogy of fallot
- Ventricular septal defect
- Pulmonic stenosis
- Dextroposition of the aorta - aorta straddles right and left ventricles
- Secondary hypertrophy of the rght ventricle
Baby blue syndrome - cyanosis
Valvular haematoma
Haemocyst/ lymphocyst - generally regress
Persistent right aortic arch
Ligamentum arteriosum forms a ring around the oesophagus and trachea.
Leads to cranial megaoesophagus - regurgitation
Peritoneopericaridial diaphragmatic hernia
Displacement of the intestine into the pericardium.
Hydropericardium
Transudate or exudate (+ fibrin - associated with mulberry heart disease)
Associated with generalised oedema and therefore cardiac tamponade and compression
Haemorrhagic pericardial effusion
Small deposits of blood
GSD
Haemopericardium
Large amounts of blood within the pericardium.
Causes:
Atrial rupture due to haemangiosarc
Aortic rupture in horses
Iatrogenic
Pneumopericardium
Due to pulmonary rupture/ oesophageal rupture
Chylopericardium
Exudate formed due to rupture of the thoracic duct
Describe this value.
Epicardial fat has become yellow and gelatinous. Due to fat metabolism (starvation).
Histologically appears oedematous and atrophic
Describe this lesion
What are the potential outcomes of the condition
Subacute diffuse severe fibrinous pericarditis
(traumatic, haematogenous, local spread of infection)
Histo - fibrin layer with n# over pericardium
Outcomes - death through septicaemia or chronicity (proliferating fibrosis) with compensatory hypertrophy &heart failure
Cause of fibrinous pericarditis in:
- Cat
- Cattle
- Pig
- Horse
- Bird
- FIP
- Pasturella, C. chauvoei, Chlamidophila, collisepticaemia
- Haemophilus parasuis, streps, pasturella, Salmonella, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
- Streps
- Chlamydia psittaci
Polyserositis
Pig?
Inflammation of several serous membranes - eg pleural, pericardium, peritoneum
Glasser’s disease - Haemophilus parasuis
Pericardial gout
Causes..
Accumulation of uric acids - found in reptiles/ birds
Causes:
- Enzyme deficiency
- Dietary
- Increased catabolism - disease/ tumours
- Renal disease
- Dehydration
Grossly see white urate crystals on the pericardial surface
Endocardial mineralisation
Excess vitamin D intake or calcinogenic plant intoxication, Hyperparathroidism, renal failure, Johne’s
Basically due to hypercalcaemia
Endocardial fibrosis
Chronic dilation, healing ulcerative endocarditis, jet lesions.
Appears as firm white plaques in endocardium and intima of large vessels
Myxomatous degeneration
Degenerative disease which accumulates mucin